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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists mobile phone numbers. Use of such numbers is typical for scams because they allow criminals to conceal their true location. They can receive calls in an Internet cafe from where they send you emails, while pretending to be in some office.
  • +448704799495 (UK, redirects to a mobile phone in another country)
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • formverificationfiduciaryagent@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY <winner@uklotteryinfo.orangehome.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:17:48 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: OFFICIAL WINNER NOTIFICATION ***CONGRATULATIONS***


THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
HOME OFFICE: 165 FULHAM PALACE RD.
W6 8JB UNITED KINGDOM.
................................
REFERENCE NUMBER:UK/839030X2/14
BATCH NUMBER:065/088/XY24
TICKET NUMBER:023-1111-790-458
OUR REF: 27349/46
................................

WINNING NOTIFICATION:
We are pleased to inform you of the final announcement today 9th of September,2006 of winners of the UK NATIONAL LOTTERY ONLINE PROMO PROGRAMME held on Thursday the 8th of September, 2006.

Your e-mail address attached to ticket number: 023-1111-790-458 with Serial number 5073-12 drew the lucky numbers:43-10-42-37-10, and a bonus number of 43 which subsequently won you the lottery in the secondcategory.You have therefore been approved to claim a total sum of £552,000,00 (Five hundred and fifty-two thousand pounds sterling)in cash credited to file XYL/26510460037/04

This is from a total cash prize of £5,520,000 shared amongst the first thirteen(10) lucky winners in this category. This year's Lottery Program Jackpot is the 5th largest ever in the history of Europe Sweepstakes. All participants for the online version were selected randomly from World Wide Web sites through computer draw system and extracted from over 125,000 unions, associations, and corporate bodies that are listed online. This promotion takes place weekly.

Please note that your lucky winning number falls within our European booklet representative office in Europe as indicated in your playcoupon. In view of this, your £552,000 would be released to you by any of our payment offices in Europe.Our European agent will immediately commence the process to facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact her. For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning information confidential till your claims is processed and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem fit to claim your prize.This is part of our precautionary measure to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program. Please be warned.

To file for your claim, please kindly provide the following informations and send it to our Fiduciary Agent (Mrs Elizabeth Walter) who shall clear you as a winner.(1)Full Names: (2)Full Address: (3)Marital Status: (4)Occupation: (5)Age: (6)Sex: (7)Nationality: (8) Country of Residence: (9)Telephone Number: (10)Ticket Number: (11)Reference Number: (12)Batch Number:

Contact Name: Elizabeth Walter(Mrs)
Fax: +448704799495
Email: formverificationfiduciaryagent@yahoo.com

Upon receipt of the duly requested that as,she shall send to you the contact information of the paying Office so you can proceed with effecting the release of your funds.

Congratulations once more from all members and staffs of this program.

Thank you for being part of our online promotional lottery program.

Yours Truly,
Richard Lloyd
Online coordinator
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY,
Sweepstakes International Program.
Open 7 days

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